a locust swarm in front of a tree
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A cloud of hungry migratory locusts descends on a tree near Isalo National Park. Swarms like this one—the result of a robust rainy season, when the insect’s population swells dramatically—appear once or twice a decade.

Photograph by INGO ARNDT
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This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.